Mister, your display name is confusing me.
― ilx poster and keen dairy observer (Jenny), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
well its worth a little inflammation for the titillation
― I love obscure members of the Athrotheiria mammal genus and... (Latham Green), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
Why are you doing this to my beautiful thread when you could be posting pictures?
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3289/3155857571_2b3fec94f6.jpg
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
be quiet or there will be more references to human fermentation
― I love obscure members of the Athrotheiria mammal genus and... (Latham Green), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6015/5963817212_63caf6bd6b_m.jpg
Don't really want to know what's going on here.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://ferrebeekeeper.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/cute-h.jpg?w=490&h=326
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
in a strange cosmic connection between rock hyraxes and yeast infections
http://convulsions.magnesiumforhealth.com/vagifem-medication/
― I love obscure members of the Athrotheiria mammal genus and... (Latham Green), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
hahahah, what the fuck!
― I'm a nerd and nerdy things happened (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 02:34 (twelve years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Hemicentetes_semispinosus.jpg seesm like its from Jim Henson
― I love obscure members of the Athrotheiria mammal genus and... (Latham Green), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
http://bearmythology.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/guy-fieri.jpg
― brownie, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
inspiration for a lifestyle : a small dorky creature
― I love obscure members of the Athrotheiria mammal genus and... (Latham Green), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
OK in the picture with the 2 RHs Eskimo kissing they almost look cute.
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
Wait, so there's now a corrugated-iron-roof hyrax? (many xposts)
― rener, Thursday, 11 August 2011 11:43 (twelve years ago) link
I would like to see an elephant hyrax hybrid
― I love obscure members of the Athrotheiria mammal genus and... (Latham Green), Friday, 12 August 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
In the Natural History Museum in London there is a rock hyrax sitting right next to an elephant, even though the info is all "we don't know for sure whether they're actually related". Yeah, Natural History Museum - try saying that to the hyrax's face.
― rener, Thursday, 18 August 2011 12:13 (twelve years ago) link
that would enrage a hyrax of any kind
― Goth Cruise to Lynch Land (Latham Green), Thursday, 18 August 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
damn right i'm treyf, motherfucker!
http://eideard.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/rockhyrax.jpg?w=275&h=288
― Shrimpkin mæchen barfen (Eisbaer), Thursday, 18 August 2011 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
the rock hyrax is the "audi-driving mba bro just havin a cold brew at dorrian's, you faggot" of the animal kingdom
― the tyrone power mixtape (get bent), Monday, 26 September 2011 01:15 (twelve years ago) link
But it sings:
Arik Kershenbaum and colleagues at the University of Haifa and Tel Aviv University have found something more surprising. Hyraxes’ songs have something rarely found in mammals: syntax that varies according to where the hyraxes live, geographical dialects in how they put their songs together. The research was published online Wednesday in The Proceedings of the Royal Society B.Bird songs show syntax, this ordering of song components in different ways, but very few mammals make such orderly, arranged sounds. Whales, bats and some primates show syntax in their vocalizations, but nobody really expected such sophistication from the hyrax, and it was thought that the selection of sounds in the songs were relatively random.Hyraxes are common in Africa and the Middle East, and there are quite a lot of them where Mr. Kershenbaum lives. He kept hearing their songs and thinking, “I simply don’t believe that these complex songs can be totally random.”So he and his colleagues recorded hyraxes around Israel and analyzed the makeup of the songs using mathematical techniques drawn from genetic analysis. They found a complex syntax that did vary. They suspect that the dialects may be carried by males when they leave their home territory as they mature, and that changes in dialect come as other hyraxes copy the songs imperfectly or improvise.Their songs are not like those of birds, as you might imagine by the way scientists have broken down the notes, or syllables, of hyrax arias. The five kinds of sounds are the “wail,’ ‘chuck,’ ‘snort,’ ‘squeak’ and ‘tweet.’ ”
Bird songs show syntax, this ordering of song components in different ways, but very few mammals make such orderly, arranged sounds. Whales, bats and some primates show syntax in their vocalizations, but nobody really expected such sophistication from the hyrax, and it was thought that the selection of sounds in the songs were relatively random.
Hyraxes are common in Africa and the Middle East, and there are quite a lot of them where Mr. Kershenbaum lives. He kept hearing their songs and thinking, “I simply don’t believe that these complex songs can be totally random.”
So he and his colleagues recorded hyraxes around Israel and analyzed the makeup of the songs using mathematical techniques drawn from genetic analysis. They found a complex syntax that did vary. They suspect that the dialects may be carried by males when they leave their home territory as they mature, and that changes in dialect come as other hyraxes copy the songs imperfectly or improvise.
Their songs are not like those of birds, as you might imagine by the way scientists have broken down the notes, or syllables, of hyrax arias. The five kinds of sounds are the “wail,’ ‘chuck,’ ‘snort,’ ‘squeak’ and ‘tweet.’ ”
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 April 2012 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
Poll on those last options, BTW.
awesome, I look forward to the CD
― Flat Of NAGLs (sleeve), Saturday, 21 April 2012 00:17 (twelve years ago) link
xp: it's like a Banana Splits side project
― fruitsbs (beachville), Monday, 23 April 2012 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH3DteA95ZI
^^^ Important news for all fans of a) hyraxes, b) unwelcome sexual attention among animals.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 17 June 2012 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbz4XOPYe4U
― Matt DC, Sunday, 17 June 2012 22:53 (eleven years ago) link
rock hyrax: 'JUST FUCK OFF'
― owenf, Sunday, 17 June 2012 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4112/5184411827_ddec888ea6.jpg
― owenf, Sunday, 17 June 2012 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
I am a hyrax for the countyAnd I'll bite you in the face
― emil.y, Sunday, 17 June 2012 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
A++
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Sunday, 17 June 2012 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.zooborns.com/zooborns/2012/07/rock-hyraxes-play-hide-and-seek-at-virginia-zoo.html
― carl agatha, Monday, 16 July 2012 02:07 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.zooborns.com/zooborns/2012/07/-tiny-rock-hyrax-for-chester-zoo.html
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Monday, 6 August 2012 12:42 (eleven years ago) link
Nice to know that they born looking mean-spirited.
― Matt DC, Monday, 6 August 2012 13:04 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9664981/Blessed-are-the-Rock-Badgers-as-Justin-Welby-heads-for-Canterbury.html
― the so-called socialista (dowd), Sunday, 11 November 2012 04:39 (eleven years ago) link
"vampire groundhog"
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 16:34 (ten years ago) link
Buzzfeed trying to still ILX's flair or something
http://www.buzzfeed.com/annmariealcantara/these-guinea-pig-look-alikes-are-related-to-elephants-adorbs
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 August 2014 22:04 (nine years ago) link
Baby rock hydraxes equally as angry looking:
http://www.zooborns.com/.a/6a010535647bf3970b01a3fd40c7cc970b-800wi
http://www.zooborns.com/zooborns/2014/08/rock-hyrax-quad-born-at-chester-zoo.html
― carl agatha, Thursday, 7 August 2014 18:27 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/4QH7S9A.jpg
― 龜, Friday, 12 February 2016 12:43 (eight years ago) link
new pixar movie villain team
― odysseus (imago), Friday, 12 February 2016 12:44 (eight years ago) link
The baby looks like it's plotting to murder the big one in its sleep.
― Matt DC, Friday, 12 February 2016 12:49 (eight years ago) link
And the big one looks like its too dumb to realize this.
― Tuomas, Friday, 12 February 2016 13:08 (eight years ago) link